50th Anniversary-Munich Air Disaster

February 6, 1958 3:04pm,
British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt
to takeoff from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Munich, West Germany.

On board the plane were the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the Busby Babes,
along with a number of supporters and journalists.
Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board the aircraft died in the disaster.